Letter: Police division has some work to do

Friday

Apr 14, 2017 at 5:00 AM

This portion of the mission statement of the Columbus Division of Police is concise and to the point: We are in service with the purpose to protect, with the passion to preservere, and with the utmost pride in our performance ("Officer reassigned after stomping," Dispatch article, Tuesday). Unfortunately, the act of protecting seems to run more deeply as it refers to protecting officers who have chronic trouble abiding by the mission of a department embodied by the overwhelming presence of courageous life-preserving and life-protecting officers.

Officer Zachary Rosen was sent into the Linden area to serve and protect. By his record, he appears to be one from whom the neighborhood needs to be protected.

Yet, I would suggest, within any family system, we cannot simply point at one member of the whole. The disease of any family calls for action to heal the whole and not to merely denounce and cast blame at a singular problem. It will serve the whole CPD to be accountable to its stated mission.

F. Allan Debelak

Columbus

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